Denims

Raymond UCO Denim is a Joint Venture between Raymond Ltd, India's largest textile and apparel major and UCO NV of Belgium. We produce and market specialty ring co lour and stretch denim.

With a combined capacity of 80 million and manufacturing facilities across 3 continents – US, Europe and Asia, Raymond U CO will be in a best position to develop an optimal and flexible service to meet global requirements of large international brands.

PRODUCT RANGE

Our Winter 2007 collection is focusing on darker denims, tighter warps without too much yarn effects, like slubs, thick and thin places and/or streakliness. The darker look can also be enhanced by chemical treatments like coatings or over dyeing. Coatings have the advantage that the hand can be influenced which helps to create a feeling for heavier, sturdier material. To this effect we introduced our GALAXY finish, a colourless coating with an ingenious mix of various components that enhance the hand and performance of the fabric. Highly resistant to aggressive industrial and household washes. This finish is meant to last. It is like a knife-edged coating giving the fabric a veneer hand without getting sticky, it also helps to stabilize the fabric, add weight and provide a flat surface.

Another finish is our BLINK finish, an engineered coating that gives denim a new dimension through its black waxy layer, which provides the fabric with a smart and elegant leather-like hand.

Colour denim remains a hot topic. UCO produces a wide number of colour denim qualities, rigid and stretch and offers a colour card of 24 colours, which can be delivered without minimums, to lower the threshold for brands and makers-up to introduce a new range into their collection.

Flat fabrics are mainly focusing on qualities with weaving fantasies, some leaning very closely to denim qualities, to create a total collection for the jeans wear industry.

STATE-OF-THE-ART PROCESSES USED

To ensure the manufacture of products of international quality, this unit uses state-of-the-art equipment, systems and practices. These include:

• Tensorapid equipment to measure Tensile and tear strengths.
• Uster testing to control the evenness of all yarns.
• Each & every bale of yarn is tested and passed through a double passage draw for effective quality blending.
• Marzoli ring spinning frames and open-end spinning are equipped with auto doffing and auto bobbin transfer systems. Together with Caipo and Amsler devices, these systems produce creative denim yarns.
• Indigo and sulfur dyeing is achieved through two-slasher dye ranges.
• Suker Muller & Masters slasher dye ranges support Picanol & Vamatex high speed looms to produce 20 million meters per annum.
• The Denim Fabrics & Apparels is finished on the Cibitex range with micro processing to stabilize shrinkage & skew. The stenter finish stabilizes shrinkage & width of stretch products.
• Routine Testing and checking at every stage of the manufacturing process.
• Shade standards and consistency are maintained via a system of wash blankets tested from every roll of Fabrics & Apparels.
• The Raymond water treatment plant purifies and recycles all indigo effluent using reverse osmosis system This enables the company to use all the water for land projects. The entire 105-acre site of the Denim facility in Yavatmal has been designated with a 'greenbelt' status
• Creative denims are developed with specialist finishing, fancy yarn devices and other equipment necessary to achieve world-class products.
• The on site laundry facility enables experimentation with creative finishing to demonstrate the full potential of each individual denim Fabrics & Apparels.